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1. JKCalhoun · 1791067032 · focus · HN ↗

   License plate reader?

   So the device should require very specific license plates to scan for—not the current dragnet. The software should only "ping" when there is a confident match with said license plate(s)—and merely log which license plate, time stamp a single photo, and note the confidence level of it being a match.

   The frame buffer should be the only place (a frame of) video is ever stored at all (excepting the high-confidence match indicated above).

   The only issue remaining would be whether we trust the device/software to have complied (and not have a backdoor) and of course there needs to be a legal warrant for every license plate uploaded (and it should expire fairly frequently, likely requiring a new warrant to continue canning for the plate).

   1. sippingabonedry · 1791071848 · focus · HN ↗

      How many cloud-connected cameras are on your street?

      I'd guess probably 50-100.

      Are we going to redesign them all to your specs too?

      1. Barbing · 1791072058 · focus · HN ↗

         Great suggestion. Stinks Amazon records every walk I go on.
      2. JKCalhoun · 1791115800 · focus · HN ↗

         Well, that is why we have laws.

         It's why, for example, we don't allow electronic devices to be sold (legally) in the U.S. that put out so much RF such that they interfere with radio broadcasts. An actual FM transmitter is limited to so many milliwatts of radiated power, etc…

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